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MYTHS, MORALS AND A HOUSE DIVIDED; Edmund Wilson Reflects on the Men, Women And Societies That Produced the Civil War Myths, Morals and an American House Divided

By HENRY STEELE COMMAGER ();

April 29, 1962,

, Section The New York Times Book Review, Page 309, Column , words

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"THROUGH our great good fortune," said Justice Holmes of his Civil War experience, "in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. We have seen with our own eyes beyond and above the gold fields, the snowy heights of honor, and it is for us to bear the report to those...

April 29, 1962

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